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This is why we can't have nice things
Veritasium
Veritasium explores planned obsolescence, from the Phoebus lightbulb cartel to printers and phones. It explains how companies deliberately shortened product lifetimes and why products aren't better.
Commenters link it as the engaging go-to explainer on planned obsolescence and the lightbulb cartel.
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